The majority is made possible by the recent appointment of Lady Mary Arden, making for a total of three women among England’s twelve Supreme Court judges.
Lady Brenda Hale and Lady Arden will be joined by Lady Jill Black alongside two male justices, Lord Robert Carnwarth and Lord David Lloyd-Jones, to hear a case next month that will mark the first female majority panel of judges ruling on a Supreme Court case.
Among many glass ceiling shattering achievements, Lady Hale was the first woman to be on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and one of the first justices when the House of Lords transitioned to the Supreme Court in 2009, again as the only woman in the cohort. In October 2017 she was sworn in officially as President of the Supreme Court.